"A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness."

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Harvey Cushing

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“Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.”

Source : The American's Creed, www.ushistory.org. 1917.
“I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.”
“Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.”

Source : 1979 In the Observer, 23 Sep.
“What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”

Source : "The Neverending Story" by Michael End, translated by Ralph Manheim, (Ch. IV), 1983.
“There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.”
“We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.”

Source : Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.63, Basic Books
“Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.”

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